More and more strawberries!

This year, the weather in LA is very strange. We had some rainy days in May. That is very unusual in LA.
I am still wearing long sleeve shirts every day. Why it's not quite hot yet!?
What is going on with the weather these days!? I really hope nothing's gonna happen in 2012...

Even though the weather is strange, my strawberries are growing very well :)
They are small but they are so beautiful, aren't they!?

The other happy thing that happened to me was: I bought a CD of Ingrid Michaelson, whom I discovered through the internet radio station, Pandora.

I loooooove listening to her CD while I am driving my car. Her CD makes me happy & stress free, even though I am stuck in the traffic. That's very important, when living in LA :)
Here's one of her songs I really love:

"You and I"

And here's the live version, which Jason Mraz joined her. How nice!!!!

The Lyrics are very cute and nice, too.
I would like to share the lyrics of the first verse and chorus with you ;) 

don't you worry, there my honey
we might not have any money
but we've got our love to pay the bills

maybe I think you're cute and funny,
maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you,
if you know what I mean

Oh, let's get rich and buy our parents homes in the South of France
let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
and teach them how to dance
let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
making everybody look like ants
from way up there, you and I, you and I, you and I,

 Check out the rest of her songs on her albums! You would like them!

First strawberry of this year!

Yes! A first strawberry of this year is becoming red in my planter!!!
It's tiny, but I will eat tomorrow morning before squirrel eat it :-p

Mug-Shoot!!!!

 I finally suceeded to take a photo of thief of my vegetables!!!!
Here are some evidence of it's crime!

Checkin' bell pepper

Squirrel: "Hmm... I guess there is no new crops here.

                         I don't wanna eat something I've already got a bite."

Checkin' Strawberries

Squirrel: "I love strawberries, but it's not in season. Let's wait till next spring."

Checkin' green onions

Squirrel: "I don't like green onions that much... 'cause it's stinky.

                           Maybe there is some more yummy food in soil... Let's dig in!"

Thank God, it didn't eat any of my vegetable this time. :-)
I need to keep patrol on my vegetables, and if it comes again (of course it will, for sure), I need to surprise it to stay away from my property  >:-(
Or if anybody has a better idea to keep it out from my vegetable, please let me know ;-)

It did it again!!!!!

OMG!!!!
A squirrel ate my vegetables again!!!!!
And this time is worse than last time!!!
It (or they) ate more than one vegetable!!!!
Here are my victims...

Two Bell peppers

Zoom photos of each one.

 Why did it eat half of two bell peppers?
Why not eating one whole and leave me the other? :-(

But bell peppers are not the only victim this time...
Yes...a tomato was eaten, too....

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this....

F%#*ers!!!!

Usual Suspect - mystery on my deck

In the morning, my husband found weird thing spreading on our deck.
And he asked me "what's that?"

First I thought those are detals from some kind of flower... however I don't have any red flower on my deck... Mmmm.... so what are those?

And when I raised my eyes up, mystery solved.
It was a bell pepper!!!!!

It must be a squirrel!!! He/she ate my precious bell pepper!!!!!

I don't know squirrels really eat bell peppers, but seeing it's tooth mark, it has to be a squirrel!!!

Here is the close up photo of the eaten bell pepper.

Oh, man... I planed to use it for a pizza or something... now it's gone into a squarrel's stomach.

Goodbye, my bell pepper....

I will take a photographic evidece next time if I can!!

Strange weather

Because of these days of strange heat, strawberries start to bloom again.
I guess strawberries misunderstand that summer is coming back!

 Not only one flower but even three flowers are bloomed!!!!

Perhaps I can have strawberries in a week or two!?

Time for Harvest

♪"You like tomato and I like tomahto"♪

That's a phrase from the song called "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off".

In Japanese, we pronounce "tomato" as "tomahto" indeed.

Anyways, it's harvesttime for my tomatoes.

I planted it in March. That means it takes 6 months to have some fruits.

Just two of those tomatoes are ready to be picked... Hmmm... It's not that much....What should I cook with these?

Oh, Dear! It's a Deer!

As usual, I was watering my plants yesterday morning.

And I found that something unusual is in our backyard....

What is that?

Seeing it closer.....

It's a Deer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never thought that I would see the deer in our backyard and had a chance to take photos of it.

He/she was eating something.

I am glad that I didn't plant any vegetable in our backyard.

If I did, deers could be my enemy even though they are really cute.

Please visit us some another time, my dear deer!